I'm Mat Elfring

I'll get a 1/16th in and ask for a doggy bag.

I want to start a YouTube channel where I go around the world and take on the toughest food challenges.

I go in.
I start the challenge.
I eat a normal portion of food at my own pace.
I ask for a doggy bag during the challenge.
I lose every time.

Also, create a character is my happy place, and this year is the first year in a while there's actually been good updates.

Last year's Showcase Mode was the best 2K has done. If you like CM Punk, you'll like this year's. Lots of different eras of him, including the ROH era with the AFI theme music.

A man holding a black gas mask for an album cover.

My dad's job was creating fonts, used on a plethora of products: Keep Wrangler, Akira Manga, Terminator 3, Contra (the game), etc. He's worked with a lot of major corporations licensing his fonts.

However, my favorite is that one of his fonts was licensed for this Xzibit album cover.

You can call him Raja!

Right?

I still want a Charles Wright Showcase going through all his characters.

I forgot to add one major fantastic change...

In create-a-wrestler, you know how you can select a bunch of names the ring announcer says for your wrestler, but it's limited?

Well, one of the new names included is "Elfring."

I'm technically in the game.

Like I said, I havent gotten into every mode. I mainly play with my son. Solid improvement from last year's already great game.

But a lot of my final thoughts wont come until I complete MyRise. It'll be a bit.

It's a game with a yearly release. It takes what it had last year and adds some new things. Most, if not all, new gameplay mechanics to matches are excellent: driving the opponent to the ropes, reversal timeouts, entrance and before match options... all excellent.

Oh... embargo is up.

WWE 2K26 is very good from exhibition gameplay perspective.

Showcase Mode is bland. CM Punk doesn't want to be there and it gets stale quickly.

I haven't dived into MyRise yet.

I'll have more takes when Casual Yelling returns, breaking down each mode.

I'm not exaggerating. I saw two separate instances this morning where those two ads ran back-to-back.

There's currently two different types of political ads in Chicagoland.

1. "This person backed ICE and took money from billionaires that backed MAGA politicians. Our candidate stood up to ICE and President Trump"

2. (The person in question from previous ad) "I love my family and I'm down to Earth!"

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

I don't blame him. The original script was not great.

I'll do another weird one.

I once received hundreds of death threats on Twitter after saying that the sound mixing was off during an ABC New Year's Eve performance by BTS.
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I was also doxed.
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Also, the sound mixing was super off. The beats were too high and vocals too low.

Yeah... fucking weird to me, still. The Dice Clay show didn't make it to pilot because he dropped out for a reoccurring role on Entourage. Lol

I was a punch up writer for two TV pilots for Sony: one that starred Andrew Dice Clay and one starred Vanilla Ice.

Dice, Ice baby.

We need to buy NiFTies and sell them

Best dude to work under while I was at GameSpot. Incredible bummer to see him laid off again.

Boss? We have a new pitchman. @kingserpentico.bsky.social

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a screen that says " dope " Alt: John Oliver, an aggressively-looking British man, sits at a desk in front of a picture of a bustling metropolis. He is wearing a suit and tie, wearing black glasses, and has the look on his face that screams, "release me from this prison." The word "dope" flashes across the screen.

I'm here to announce, I have purchaed HBO Max for $33.5 billion dollars.

From now on, please call the service HBO Mat.

Also, @lastweektonight.com has been renewed for 50 seasons. Now, you're stuck in this job until long after you've left this mortal world, John Oliver.

#OneLove #CabbageWife

I'm thinking about doing an episode of how WWE fans are just WWE fans, not wrestling fans. Does that sound mean?

Second episode recorded this morning!

Ep1: The only time I headlined a comedy show
Ep2: How I became an accidental journalist for a decade

Also, there's going to be a lot of WWE 2k26 episodes too because it's that time of the year.

Now... AEW... make a good game please.

A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

Well... there goes my hope for Danhausen appearing on Mystery Wrestling in a You Are Cursed Match.

One episode recorded this morning!

It’s also like…. The fun of D&D is playing with your friends. That’s like the whole point. What are you replacing with this AI? Friendship?

I want to torture my friends and I want them to completely derail the story I spent months on. I want friendship toxicity in my tabletop gaming.

I just got a YouTube ad for AI trained to be a D&D DM.
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I just....
I fucking hate AI, especially as a replacement for creative work. I hate the people that fund AI. I just hate so much about it.